Santa Cruz >> Santa Cruz police are looking for a man suspected of punching an employee at the Paradox Hotel early Monday morning.

About 2:30 a.m., a man who appeared intoxicated asked hotel staff to call him a cab, but when the cab didn't arrive quickly enough, the man punched the employee who had called the cab, according to the Santa Cruz police blog.

The inebriated man got into the cab. Police alerted the cab driver about the suspect, who was still in the back seat, according to police. The driver pulled over but the suspect got out of the cab and fled.

The suspect told the driver that he lived around 26th or 27th Avenue and his name was "Zack".